US Plant Patent PP6421
Rouge
Grapevine, Rouge
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 29, 2007. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6421
- Filed
- January 29, 1987
- Granted
- November 29, 1988
- Expires
- January 29, 2007
- Assignee
- CARATAN ANTON GEORGE
- Inventor
- CARATAN GEORGE L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of grapevine denominated varietally as "Rouge" generally resembling the Emperor grapevine (unpatented) but characterized as to novelty by producing grapes which are ready for commercial harvesting approximately September 10 to October 15 at Delano, Calif. and which furthermore produce berries which are substantially greater in size and which have a different color than that of the Emperor variety of grapevine.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
Having thus described and illustrated my new variety of grapevine, I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of grapevine to be denominated varietally as "Rouge", substantially as illustrated and described, and which is characterized principally as to novelty by its production of a red berry which is mature for harvesting approximately September 10 to October 15 in Delano, Calif., said grapes maturing in approximately the same season as the fruit produced by the Emperor grapevine (unpatented) which it most closely resembles but from which it is distinguished by producing berries which are mature for commercial harvesting approximately two to three weeks before the Emperor grapevine and which further has leaves having a distinctive U-shaped petiolar sinus and which further has cluster size and color which are distinctively different from the Emperor variety of grapevine.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6421 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.